"Rebuilding the Community ... block by block, family by family"
Access Community Housing has been serving the Los Angeles County area for over eleven years, dedicated to rebuilding neighborhoods and developing work force housing for lower income families.
Access
believes that the way to rejuvenate our communities is not by replacing
the community; rather we believe you rebuild the community house-by-house,
block-by-block, and
family-by-family.
EL SEGUNDO, CA
Access currently owns and manages 79 residential rental units in ten different buildings in Los Angeles County. We serve families who are in need including the mentally and physically disabled, hearing impaired, visually challenged, families transitioning from battered women shelters, emancipated youth (transitional housing), seniors, homeless, and low to very low income families.
Access was chosen by Century Housing Corporation to be its Housing Development Partner in a joint venture called Century Family Homes, LLC. Century Housing is a former state agency, privatized as a nonprofit organization. The mission of the joint venture is to build work force housing with financing available from Century Housing Corporation. Our first project is the development of thirteen Fleetwood manufactured homes in Hawthorne, California. We have completed our second phase of construction.
Access was selected as the City of Lynwood's Community Housing Development Organization (CHODO). The CHODO designation is a HUD approved and sponsored program. HUD provides a variety of funding to cities to work with the CHODO organization in lower income housing developments. We are very honored to be selected.
Our first partnership project with the City of Lynwood was to build new single-family residences on land that was acquired by the Century Freeway development. Each house carried a requirement to maintain affordability upon resale. The City awarded us a new phase partnership and we have completed and sold the additional homes in December 2002. The new homes were successfully built and sold to first time homebuyers on time and on budget.
Our Access Community Housing Homebuyer Education Center serves the South Central Los Angeles community and focuses on the needs of the rental population and first-time homebuyers. It was funded by a grant from the Union Bank Foundation. Prospective buyer identification, education, counseling and lending are the main objectives of this program. Access Community Housing, under contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District, provided homebuying counseling to families relocated in the school expansion program.
The Homebuyer Education Center received a multi year contract from the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide financial literacy and homeownership training for the families displaced by the new school construction program.
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) chose Access Community Housing, Inc., as one of it's first nonprofit affordable housing developer to lead in the "Move-On Housing Program." We will be providing housing development expertise to move homes that are owned by the airport to other lots in the City and County of Los Angeles in order to maintain the affordable housing stock.
We had been selected by The Enterprise Foundation to be a Development Partner in the EHOP (Enterprise Home Ownership Partnership) program. Access was responsible for redevelopment in a specific geographic area. We completed 30 homes in the 28 months during our involvement with EHOP.
Access Community Housing is a member of Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH), the Enterprise Foundation Network, The American Homeowner Education and Counseling Training Institute (AHECTI), the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Network, California Reinvestment Committee, and is a Partner with the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC).